Growth and nephropathy. An aproach from general pediatrics

Abstract

In the last years there have been a lot of studies about growth and development in the child with nephropathy. In this paper it is exposed a review of the more relevant problems, detaching the aspects refering to: age at the begining of the illness, nature of the nephropathy, glomerular filtrate, nutritional factors, renal osteodistrophia and axis GH-somatomedines.